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At least 132 people, including four law enforcement officers, were killed Tuesday during a large-scale Brazilian police raid in Rio de Janeiro, according to media reports.

The operation, which took place in the city’s favelas — poor neighborhoods long plagued by organized crime — was the deadliest in Rio’s history, the BBC reported. Authorities said the raid targeted drug gangs that continue to control vast areas of the city, with the objective of targeting the powerful Comando Vermelho, or “Red Command” organization, which controls vast areas of the city.

The local public defender’s office announced the death toll, though Rio state Governor Cláudio Castro cautioned that forensic work was still underway. He said the official number he had rece

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